Green Light Sought for First Gas-Fired Carbon Capture Plant

GALWAY, IRELAND--April 3, 2015 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) (The Hague, Netherlands) and SSE plc (Perth, Scotland) have lodged a planning application with Aberdeenshire council in Scotland to build what would be the world's first commercial scale gas-fired carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.

The Peterhead project is a 340-megawatt (MW) post-combustion capture plant retrofitted to part of an existing 1,180 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station at Peterhead, Scotland.